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Riga Forum Programme

Wednesday 10 April

15:00 – 17:00 Feminist tour of Riga.

17:00 – 19:00 Registration, welcome drink and getting to know each other

19:00 – 21:00 Dinner

Thursday 11 April

09:00 – 11:00 Agora 4 exchange "Questions in the Air"

11:00 – 12:30 Practitioners Lab – parallel workshops by:

a) Aurelija Auškalnytė (Lithuania) "What do you mean by gender equality?"

b) Mariia Tyshchenko and Svitlana Garashchenko (Ukraine) "Multicultural Challenges and Gender"

c) Oksana Briukhovetska (Ukraine) book presentation Right to Truth. Conversations about Art & Feminism

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch and free time

14:00 – 16:00 Practitioners Lab – open mic

a) Josefina Posch (Sweden) - sculptureHUB

b) Loulou d'Aki (Sweden) - Mother of Choice

c) Melanie Lyn (Germany) - I Aborted

d) Yulia Lashchuk (Ukraine) - Migrating Bord(h)ers

16:00 – 16:30 Feed-in and evaluation

16:30 – 17:30 ArtGora Café (slow dating space)

18:00 – 20:00 Visit ISSP and artists talk with Sara Palmieri and Anna Hornik

20:00 – 21:30 Dinner

Friday 12 April

09:30 – 10:30 Opportunities: Tandem programme by Sophia Meyer-Landrut from MitOst (Berlin) and i-Portunus by Oksana Sarzhevskaya-Kravchenko from IZOLYATSIA (Kyiv)

10:30 – 12:30 Practitioners Lab – parallel workshops

a) Liza Baliasnaja (Lithuania) - Reading Extended, based on reading of contemporary philosophical text and collective movement practice.

b) Joanna Bednarczyk (Poland) on how to organise a feminist, inclusive film festival in a conservative environment and succeed.

c) Verena Spilker (Germany) on what can art/culture/ activism do for the queer community and vice versa? And how can we do it best?

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch and free time

14:00 – 15:30 Practitioners Lab – Open Mic

a) Tiina Sööt (Estonia) - Running Gag

b) Lasha Tsertsvadze (Georgia) Georgian Queer Sensuality

c) Aet Kuusik (Estonia) - How to Say Yes

15:30 – 16:00 Lecture performance on the history of vogue by Alyssa Chloé (USA/Sweden)

16:00 – 17:30 ArtGora Café (slow dating space)

17:30 – 18:00 Evaluation and closure

19:00 – 21:00 Dinner and party

Saturday 13 April

Departure